[silence] Gaps in archives, and a find

[Joseph Zitt]

I've just stumbled across an apparent archive that has posts from March 
2002 through February 2007. I think this, with the files that Myron 
mentions, might fill all the gaps!

Myron Bennett wrote:
> (Reading this over before sending suggested to me that most readers
> would get so bored by the first part that they might not get to the
> "find" that I offer, that no one else seemingly has. So the impatient
> among you might drop down to the two asterisks (**) below)
> 
> 
> Sorry I'm not right on the heels of the recent questions and answers
> about the Silence archives, but I think I have in my archives some
> things not yet recovered.  First I'll sum up who has what so far as I
> can tell from recent messages and web sources.
> The Greg Davis collection which is now on the Bend of Bay site covers
> Vol 1 number 01, December of 1994 to Vol number 299, Sept. of 1999.
> A couple of months ago here on Silence, Josh Ronsen noted the New
> Albion archives covering Aug to Dec of 2002.
> And we have the current archives covering December 2002 to the present
> at the site mentioned after each message here.
> I recall one message recently asked about the period of August to
> December in 1999, and don't recall anyone replying to that.
> 
> In spite of my propensity for disorder when it comes to things like
> desks, I kept all the Digests from the time I joined the list in
> February of 95.  (I also read the regular list messages.)  And after
> the confusion of changing to Virginia as host, when the present system
> of archive availability was ready, I kept and keep the monthly
> archives.
> So, in short, I have everything except the period between Volume 1
> Number 397 (August 2002) and the monthly archive's beginning at the
> very end of December 2002.
> 
> Oh, yes.  I have one thing more.  Not ranking among the great
> archeological finds of all time, I do have a file not previously
> mentioned in the recent correspondence.
> The first messages were handled by the MajorDomo at BGA.com.  I'm not
> giving away anything by saying that the majordomo was/is not human. It
> is a machine which thinks like a machine (or a programmer?)  And it
> thinks that things begin at zero.
> **
> So while all the available sources of the first years of Silence begin
> with Volume 1 number 1, the majordomo began with Volume 1 number 0.\
> I have it.
> It begins with (I guess) test messages from Joe Zitt and others, from
> November 28 of 94 to December 13 of the same year.  Then came number
> 1.
>>From skimming it over, nothing earth-shattering or calling for
> congressionl investigation, but I suppose a scholar might enjoy it for
> scholarly reasons.
> Anyone want it?  I have it in Wordperfect, but of course it can be
> transformed.
> 
> Myron Bennett
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